Word: influenza
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...trials and races. "Our website is like a mini-TV station," says Dynamic Syndications managing director Dean Watt. "If you could put a smell through the Internet we would do it." Right now, though, few would want to be that close to an Australian horse. An epidemic of equine influenza has hit some 5,000 stables and breeding farms in New South Wales and Queensland, resulting in numerous race cancellations and costing the industry an estimated $1 billion...
ROBIN HAYES, North Carolina Republican Representative, after learning that House Homeland Security Committee staffers were required to be immunized against hepatitis A and B, diphtheria and influenza before attending a NASCAR race...
...actually has this information. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has primary responsibility for monitoring the use of select agents - but according to critics, it's working with an outdated list. The last revision to the list occurred in 2005, with the addition of the re-created influenza virus that killed some 40 million people in 1918. Still missing from the register: SARS, Hantavirus and other deadly viruses, which, as a consequence, are subject to virtually no regulation...
...deep end of science is where Jose Varghese likes to be. Part of the pioneering team that in the mid '90s developed the anti-influenza drug Relenza - one of only two drugs known to be effective against avian flu - Varghese is now focusing on an enigmatic protein, amyloid beta, and what he suspects are its toxic effects on the brains of people with Alzheimer's. In the international race to uncover amyloid beta's molecular structure - the crucial first step in finding out how to block its pathological effects - synchrotron X rays are a crucial tool. The molecules...
...island of Bali has always been a separate part of Indonesia. A Hindu province inside the biggest Muslim country in the world, a jet-setting resort inside a poor, rural nation - and a zone free of human cases of avian influenza in the nation that has recorded the most bird flu infections in the world. But Bali is bird flu free no longer. Today the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed the death of a young Balinese woman from H5N1 avian flu, the second case on the island in less than a month. Although Indonesian and WHO officials were quick...